HATIF

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Under the name HATIF , the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ran a dropout program from 2010 to 2014 for people who wanted to break away from Islamism and Islamist terrorism . The name HATIF is on the one hand the acronym for "Out of terrorism and Islamist fanaticism", on the other hand it corresponds to the Latin spelling of the Arabic word for "telephone".

Program

The aim of the program was to help people who want to break free from an environment "in which a fanatical Islam that supports the use of violence is preached and lived". A hotline was set up for this purpose , which was available from July 2010 to September 2014. The calls were answered by specialists from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Calls in Turkish and Arabic were also possible. In addition to talks, help with contacts with authorities, support in the event of threats, mediation of qualification measures and, in individual cases, material help were offered.

Reactions and criticism

The General Secretary of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany , Aiman ​​Mazyek , welcomed the new program as the right step, although the Central Council was not involved in the drafting. In the opinion of Bernd Wagner , who founded “ Exit Deutschland ”, the dropout initiative for right-wing extremists , leaving the Islamist scene is more difficult to cope with, as the connection to the religious community should probably not be given up. The Islamic scholar Götz Nordbruch criticized: "A state program is not an authority to turn to if you have rejected this society beforehand". The initiative reaches at most a small fringe group. The migration policy spokesman for the Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Memet Kilic , considered the project to be a waste of resources as long as there was no record of the dropout program for right-wing extremists.

The response remained low. Often the phone was idle for weeks. Therefore, the program was discontinued in September 2014. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution now refers instead to the “ Advice Center on Radicalization ” of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germany debuts 'suicide bomber hotline' . Jerusalem Post, July 19, 2010
  2. ↑ David Crossland: In a plan praised by the Central Council of Muslims, German authorities have set up a telephone hotline similar to one that has been used in the past decade to assist neo-Nazis. In: The National. July 25, 2010, accessed December 13, 2018 .
  3. ^ Hotline for doubting Islamists . Qantara, July 20, 2010
  4. ↑ First hotline for dropouts from Islamism ( memento of the original dated November 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeltmacher-nachrichten.eu archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Christian press review, July 21, 2010
  5. ↑ Dropout program "HATIF" discontinued . Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution